Although increased physical activity early in life is recommended for optimizing bone health, no controlled trials on the effect of activity on bone mass accretion during periods of rapid growth have been reported. The purpose of this study was to determine whether infants randomized to a 1 year gross motor activity program had a greater bone mass accretion than infants randomized to a fine mot...

The determination of gross alpha, gross beta and (226)Ra activity in natural waters is useful in a wide range of environmental studies. Furthermore, gross alpha and gross beta parameters are included in international legislation on the quality of drinking water [Council Directive 98/83/EC]. In this work, a low-background liquid scintillation counter (Wallac, Quantulus 1220) was used to simultan...

Background: Assessment of activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th, 40K and gamma dose rate (DR) was carried out over a laterite mining field in Ilorin-south, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A well calibrated Super-Spec (RS-125) gamma spectrometer was used to measure the activity concentrations of 40K, 238U, 232Th and gamma doses rate at 1 m above the ground level over the laterite mining field. ...

Mining activity has been a significant driver of export growth as well as income and employment in parts of regional Australia. However, while income growth is an economic benefit, the high incomes associated with the mining sector may also lead to greater inequality. This paper describes an empirical analysis of mining activity and income inequality in regional Australia. The Gini coefficient ...

This paper describes a Conscious Tutoring System (CTS) capable of dynamic fine-tuned assistance to users. We put forth the combination of a Causal Learning and Emotional learning mechanism within CTS that will allow it to first establish, through data mining algorithms, gross user group models. CTS then uses these models to find the cause of mistakes made by users, evaluate their performance, p...

A meta-analysis of adult exercise studies and an infant activity trial show a possible interaction between physical activity and calcium intake on bone. This randomized trial of activity and calcium supplementation was conducted in 239 children aged 3-5 years (178 completed). Children were randomized to participate in either gross motor or fine motor activities for 30 minutes/day, 5 days per we...

An attempt has been made in this study to examine the relationship between entrepreneurship financing from the perspective of agricultural small and medium scale enterprises and nation building in Nigeria from 1990 to 2017. Data were collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical Bulletin with the application of Autoregressive Distributed Lagged and Bounds test to address the objective ...

Web mining has been a major research topic during the last decade. Traditional sources of information on the Web include the text of web pages, the structure of the pages as organized by the web page creators, as well as the link structure of the Web. Another emerging source of information is the tags for web pages as collected and organized by collaborative tagging systems (e.g. del.icio.us, S...